http://asiaobscura.com Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:42:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://asiaobscura.com/2013/06/the-new-ios-game-from-the-creators-of-asiaobscura.html http://asiaobscura.com/2013/06/the-new-ios-game-from-the-creators-of-asiaobscura.html#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:47:50 +0000 Andy Deemer http://asiaobscura.com/?p=6418 I haven’t been posting much for the last three months. Sorry. Instead, I’ve been working away on a new iPad game… “The Stormglass Protocol“, a room-escape game with all of the dark humor, cult movie references, and snark of AsiaObscura. … Read More »]]> http://asiaobscura.com/2013/06/the-new-ios-game-from-the-creators-of-asiaobscura.html/feed 0 http://asiaobscura.com/2013/05/the-poem-i-cant-find.html http://asiaobscura.com/2013/05/the-poem-i-cant-find.html#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 06:37:04 +0000 Andy Deemer http://asiaobscura.com/?p=6403 I spent the weekend on a Dutch barge on a French canal, working towards my helmer’s license. Being back in France after so many years was perfect. A cold wet breeze over endless fields of rapeseed. A massive wheel in … Read More » Related posts:

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]]> http://asiaobscura.com/2013/04/deranged-clown-cream-biscuits.html/feed 2 http://asiaobscura.com/2013/04/ahalya-gautama-and-the-god-of-1000-ahem-vajayjays.html http://asiaobscura.com/2013/04/ahalya-gautama-and-the-god-of-1000-ahem-vajayjays.html#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:17:58 +0000 Dean Pickles http://asiaobscura.com/?p=6329 So I’m in the middle of R.K. Narayan’s condensed version of the Ramayana — one of the great Indian epics — and I have to re-print the amazing story of Ahalya, Gautama and Indra. It’s too amazing. Now Ahalya was … Read More »]]> http://asiaobscura.com/2013/04/ahalya-gautama-and-the-god-of-1000-ahem-vajayjays.html/feed 0 http://asiaobscura.com/2013/04/dr-shankars-wonderful-collection-of-brains-and-other-medical-obscura.html http://asiaobscura.com/2013/04/dr-shankars-wonderful-collection-of-brains-and-other-medical-obscura.html#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:58:06 +0000 Andy Deemer http://asiaobscura.com/?p=6316 It came up over a bowl of brain stew at Karim’s, Old Delhi’s famously-dingy 1913 eatery. “Tasty,” I said, wiping my mouth. “By the way, did I tell you about the brain museum in Bangalore? The architect told me we … Read More »]]> http://asiaobscura.com/2013/04/dr-shankars-wonderful-collection-of-brains-and-other-medical-obscura.html/feed 7 http://asiaobscura.com/2013/04/another-diana-pose-at-the-taj-mahal.html http://asiaobscura.com/2013/04/another-diana-pose-at-the-taj-mahal.html#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:31:46 +0000 Andy Deemer http://asiaobscura.com/?p=6298 From Beijing’s miniature Taj Mahal, of course… Oh, what an unforgettable day that was… Related posts: The Taj Mahal… Murder, Incest, and Fratricide Well, we made it to the Taj Mahal last weekend.... Bizarre Beijing: CityWeekend’s Tribute to AsiaObscura Maybe … Read More » Related posts:

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